ppl. a. [pa. pple. of FORBID v.] In senses of the vb.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 35. His eien to bihealden þe forbodene appel.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 19861 (Cott.). Forboden beistes war [sc. þai] in lede.
c. 1465. Eng. Chron. (Camden, 1856), 57. That the said maister Thomas sholde say massis in forboden and inconuenient placeȝ.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. ix. 128. Quhen scho to Troy forbodyn hymeneus socht.
1588. Shaks., Loves Labour’s Lost, II. i. 26.
| Before we enter his forbidden gates, | |
| To know his pleasure. |
1619. N. Brent, trans. Sarpi’s The Historie of the Councel of Trent, III. (1676), 276. To give leave to every person, though Ecclesiastical, to eat Flesh, and forbidden Meats, in Lent, and on Fasting Days.
1782. Cowper, Retirem., 215.
| His hours of leisure and recess employs | |
| In drawing pictures of forbidden joys. |
a. 1839. Praed, Poems (1864), II. 109, ‘Reminiscences of My Youth.’
| I entered that forbidden room: | |
| All things were still!—a death-like gloom | |
| Stole on me, as I saw her lie | |
| In her white vest of purity. |
b. spec. Forbidden degrees, certain degrees of relationship within which persons are forbidden to marry; forbidden fruit, (a) that forbidden to Adam (Gen. ii. 17), also fig.; (b) hence, a name given to several varieties of Citrus, esp. C. decumana; † forbidden time (Sc. Law), the close time for fish.
1609. Skene, Quon. Attach., lxxxvii., heading. Of forbiddin Tyme in Fishing.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. iii. § 5. He [God] required from him the observance of that positive command of not eating of the forbidden fruit.
1663. Flagellum; or O. Cromwell (ed. 2), 5. The stealing and tasting of the forbidden fruit of Soveraignty, by which (as the serpent told him) He should be like unto a God.
1818. M. G. Lewis, Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834), 212. The rest will yield, some sweet oranges, others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit, and, in short, all the varieties of the orange.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Pomelloes, a name under which forbidden fruit is sometimes sold in this country by fruiterers.
1866. Treas. Bot., Forbidden Fruit Citrus Paradisi.—(of London) a variety of the shaddock C. decumana.
1872. Gloss. Eccl. Terms (ed. Shipley), Forbidden Degrees.
Hence Forbiddenly adv.; Forbiddenness.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 417.
| You haue toucht his Queene | |
| Forbiddenly. |
1647. Boyle, Disc. agst. Swearing, vii. Wks. 1772, VI. 10. Since the sinfulness of swearing does consist not in the diversity of our oaths, but in their forbiddenness.
1744. Birch, Life Boyle, 41. Such strange and hideous thoughts, and such distracting doubts of some of the fundamentals of Christianity, that, though his looks did little betray his thoughts, nothing but the forbiddenness of self-dispatch hindered his acting it.
